they were convinced that the to send money to the american entire region and area around it red cross, text the word harvey, was going to flood south of houston. people need to evacuate immediately, but it seems that 290999 and make a ten dollar donation if you can. some of the locals had a better idea of all of this. 1-800-red cross. our matt finn is live on thanks for joining us today. location now. what happened? i'm sandra smith. >> it's 3:00 on the east coast, 2:00 p.m. on the texas gulf coast where harvey has gentleman, he actually helped flooded crucial reservoir dams and shatter the rainfall record for any tropical storm in construct this levy on his own time in his own merit and you history. feel like it's not going to more than 49 inches and break. >> that's right. counting. we are also seeing more dramatic we got the concrete bags, with that solid wood and everything rescues of countless other people desperately wait for help. that is backed by sandbags. >> it's really sad out here. it's a lot of water. burner material, bringing a lot of people. 2 truckloads. it's just bad. we are moving all these bricks and stuff what you're doing it's really bad. really good. >> it's an emotional ride. lots of house construction out here. lots of material used. we are worried. everybody is worried. sorry for using your stuff, guy >> president trump arrived this morning touring part of the disaster area. he is set to arrive in austin guys. >> people at home i think that just minutes from now after you're crazy to be on the side of the levy. you feel like this is safe and visiting corpus christi near the spot where the storm hit with a that these two homes on the right are not going to flood? category four. it's not just texas. >> yes, sir, .

this was already the rainiest summer on record in new orleans it's not that disastrous break that people are talking about, even before harvey. now the governor of louisiana breaking the levy, it's just warning of dangerous flooding media that's got you guys. could be on the way. trying to blow it out of proportion. we don't do drama here. harvey, the ongoing disaster and recovery ahead. let's get to it. anyway, if we get a little bit of a leak, it's not a big deal. >> now, it's the rushing water that "shepard smith reporting" light starts to a road stuff over from the fox news desk. time. we had a pretty good waterfall >> shepard: we begin with what is reported to be a levee breach here probably from here to the south of houston and a warning for people around it to get out end. now. i don't know how many gallons a as result of flash flood warning minute, but a whole lot. in effect for western part of we stopped at, got a little trickle, no big deal. the county south of houston. >> thank you for your time. we wish you guys well. >> we are often houston. 5:45 p.m. local time today. the locals there think they are going to be able to keep that >> shepard: got commercial levee from causing too many there. >> we were up in houston problems. witnessing that turmoil and we we will go there live shortly. drove down here because there in addition, we are keeping was some frenzy about this levy. watch on the west side of houston where the heavy rains the county considers a breach are mostly passed, but two and they are still urging people to get out and this is a time reservoirs have overflowed. that maybe they're using a lot of caution. >> shepard: it in urgent the addicks and barker display, not from news media, reservoirs. they protect the downtown but from the county itself houston from flooding at saying you must evacuate now. engineers earlier began releasing water in hopes of relieving the pressure. thankfully, the locals of taking

care of themselves. officials say that was not the houston mayor is speaking again now about the search and enough. and now, overflow. rescue effort. let's listen. they are warning that more homes >> we are still waiting on fema and more streets and surrounding areas will flood. we just got word in the last and the red cross to provide the necessary supplies and staffing hour that the controlled release of water from those reservoirs for all of the shelters that because of all the rainfall and runoff to come could last until exist and those that may be needed. everybody is being pushed. october. everybody's being pushed. harvey setting a new record for tropical system as i mentioned, that's why it's important to work as a team and you don't more than 49 inches in mary's just rely on any one or two creek south and east of houston. the old record was 48. sources. it's going to take all of us. forecasters say more than a dozen spots in houston have seen in order to meet the needs. more than 40 inches of rain and i just got off the phone with at least three dozen have gotten the secretary of industry, rick 3 feet. president trump, as i mentioned in texas today. perry, who is making calls and has made calls to assist in the president saying harvey has reached epic proportions. he thanked officials for their work but said they could wait to congratulate themselves after getting supplies from fema. it's all over. we know that the airports are for all involved, he said they were still so much work to do. functional, not just for commercial flights that utilize the pentagon reporting it may send some 40,000 guardsmen from texas and other states, ten times more than the number there flying supplies and as quickly

as possible, and i thank you for now. but with all the numbers, it's reaching out and for his important to not forget this has been a deadly storm. assistance. >> shepard: the mayor speaking we reported here yesterday about on the left-hand side of your a family of six missing and believed to be dead. screen. the president about to step off of air force one. now we are learning that he is excited to be in austin for the rest of the afternoon. includes four children, three of whom are in the picture here on the president was this morning the right and their in corpus christi where he spoke great-grandparents. all members of the south of our with senators and local family. relatives say they were in the emergency responders, got a briefing from there that said van trying to escape the how proud he was of all the flooding east of houston and at locals, how impressed the nation one point, they say the current swept the van into a bayou. had been with the work of houston. the driver managed to escape, explained the whole country is with the people of houston and then called his relatives back surrounding area, harris county home to say they are gone. down toward purpose kristi. the whole coast, everyone. all six believed to have drowned. the "houston chronicle" for the reports that police officer also we're not going to congratulate drowned in his patrol car while each other right now. we are going to save that until he was driving to work. after this is done. somewhere near interstate 45 north harris county. everyone is making it perfectly. there is so much to be done. some live pictures coming to us now. he is saying how this is still a these are from associated press. search and rescue effort. it's not a recovery effort. the rescues are happening alive. try to go out to affect more these are life pictures coming to us right now. rescues on scene.

so far, cops have not confirmed it's one rescue after another. the death of the officer. the storm has moved somewhat to they are pointing at the number of dead is supposed to rise. the east, but the rescues are they suspect that it will. continuing as the water is still so high. the police chief says he is "really worried about how many bodies we are going to find." all of this is going on as a a volunteer army people have been out there, the cajun navy that we've heard so much about shelters in and around houston are becoming more crowded by the day. this morning, organizers at the many of these are local texans biggest one in houston at the who might on a sunday afternoon convention center there said be out that's fishing after more than 9,000 people had arrived, nearly double its church and state using that same capacity. for those still waiting for boat, that same volunteer to get help, the police chief says they in there to try to rescue peopl are trying. people. remember, you can't just take >> we are fully functional and your boat out there because you still trying to get the folks don't know when the water is going to rise and you get help in. don't give up on us. seek the higher ground, we will launching your boat and getting it back out of the water. get to you. it takes a whole group of people we have assets at every passing to be able to affect these hour, more boats are getting rescues and they figure their into the water, every passing own coronation in many cases has hour, more high water rescue been very impressive and we are expecting to hear from the president just a short time from vehicles coming to the theater. please know one of the delays now as he speaks in austin. it is one of those mulch points has been, this is a catastrophic were we've been watching people event that i don't think we've seen when the weather channel

starts creating a new color for come in with the helicopter rescues. rainfall. there was some confusion earlier they've never use that color before. there's a reason they used it. that we were saying that these >> shepard: there certainly is a live pictures we were just rescues weren't effective. that is the farthest thing from watching coming in from the truth. harris county, back to those if what we were saying is how we could. interesting and surreal it must you can see the changing dynamic here, a different one here. be for people who are being that's not what i meant. rescued and they are so thankful and they are on the end of a but at any rate, let's listen to guidewire or or the end of the the slide report. cable at the end of a helicopter >> i'm going to show you with and suddenly, they are flying the outside of that house looks through the air. like. first, maybe take a look at some just the all oh, my god, of it. of the pictures from inside, and and another rescue being extraordinary look. affected here. let's listen in. he hadn't been back since he >> you're going to be on tv. left the house on saturday. he opened the door and this is >> we are near the parker some of what he saw. reservoir and maybe you heard it's just incredible about that. they are releasing water. devastation. we were in this neighborhood with you yesterday. it is being repeated all over. not only that, we take a look the street was not flooded. this wasn't one of the ones that we were on. back and live here. this is one of the reasons why all of a sudden, the water has his house flooded. risen dramatically because of the releases out of that this is a levee but behind his reservoir. they need to release because if house it separates the bayou they don't, the dam could give from his house. this broke through this morning, way and then we've got huge

problems, 3,000 homes in it is a pretty good flow. jeopardy. these folks from a local church as you can tell, we are walking across it, it's really flowing through. this is his house, the exterior of his house. launched a boat and have come over here. and the reason for this is these two little kids just got because they are releasing water from the dam, from the on board and are you scared at all about this? >> i am scared. >> what are you scared of? reservoir, and they have no >> i'm just scared that if i lose my house there, it might choice because they don't do get flooded. that, the reservoir potentially >> is everybody safe in there as could be compromised. far as you know? so all of these houses are >> yes. there's my two cousins and my getting water mainly because of that right now. that's why this water is mom and my dad and us. continuing to rise. some of the people are not we're the only ones they and wanting to leave, never had were all coming on this boat. water here before. stiglitz you're lucky that this there's a couple two doors down, boat came up. elderly folks, and that lady try got you. i want to go talk to them if i to get her to leave and she said can. could you hold on with me? i am not leaving. i will walk back in if i have t to. she is in that house, maybe not not as young as i used to be. mrs. carlos, he is the pastor of that one but the one to the left there. and you can see where that is. fortunately, it has a second the church. floor. she and her elderly husband are that means power and that's what staying up there. you're doing right now.

we will keep an eye on them. >> trying to do whatever god says to do when we try to come over here to help the people and do the best we can for everybod the water is continuing to rise. >> shepard: is right around one of those reservoirs in which i was reporting just a moment ago. he is reporting right now for everybody. we tried to help. the fox business network. we'll get him back in just a >> your little boys a little minute. scared, just fyi. we see these pictures, this tells the story of the changing are you okay? you're healthy. >> yes. dynamic. there are times of the >> happy to get out of here, i floodwaters are not too high take it. with a high water vehicles, the have you got water inside their? one like you see on the right, it's a dump truck that is now >> not yet. >> it's coming. substituting as a people mover. >> is that your dad. that's my uncle. sometimes a high water vehicles my mom is at the hospital paid i work. sometimes you have to use boats haven't seen her since friday. depending on how high the water is. the power went out yesterday but back again today. sometimes they affect rescues and the jet skis. in the hospital. it just depends on where the >> is she sick in the hospital? water is an end and flow of things. >> she's a nurse. i can show you where this is all going on the big wall over to my >> let me ask this, you're lucky left. that behind camera six. to get out. this is where the storm is now. we reported here yesterday this >> got everything up in high is going to come back offshore ground. and overnight. >> who expected this water was did just that. going to come up? it's the release of the reservoir. >> that's what we're getting.

it's here now, center of i'll let you go. i don't want to screw this up. circulation down here and eventually it is expected that this is happening all over as the storm, the central part of the rotation of the storm is you know when you're saying it better than i am seeing it. going to go back on shore up close and personal here. sometime tomorrow and make as i said, these people did not landfall right around the expect it yesterday. they thought we are good. louisiana texas border. we are good to go. and now they're good to stay is what i guess i should've said. somewhere east of houston, somewhere west of lake charles, now that got to go. got to get on a boat pickup back louisiana. take a track right up through there. before i get stuck here myself. there is a high-pressure center >> shepard: do you have any to the west and high-pressure center to the east of the storm idea how much water there was sitting in the middle to expecting? do they have any idea? spinning. now there is a pressure trough that leads right up. the meteorologist believe it's going to take that trough and >> it's unknown pretty you got a head towards north mississippi, ladder. it's unknown because here's the deal. they are still releasing. west tennessee and eventually by this is great. friday, leave this part of texas she's got a ladder. and hopefully louisiana as well outstanding. >> shepard: be careful. without the rain's that things can dry out and eventually don't fall in the water. people can go in and stop the rescue effort and begin to see >> jump onto. if they can recover much of the problem is they are their lives. continuing to release from the the police chief mentioned the change the weather map and the reservoir, barker. we were over there earlier. colors reflecting the rainfall

it's falling out of the spillway total data we show you exactly because they're afraid afraid if they don't release, the negative what those were. breach and that and 30,000 over 50 inches in some areas. we are expecting a new report homes, it's a johnstown flood if from the national weather service just about an hour from you go too far back in history. the very dramatic immediate now and at that point will be able to know exactly how high the weather has become. flood. right now, the release means it's coming up slowly. they are expecting more inches these people do have some time of rain this afternoon. to get out. i mentioned eventually it will you need help getting in are you head to north mississippi in arcade? west tennessee, most likely i'm not worried. friday and by then, the water in >> shepard: i guess they were texas should largely receipt and essentially living in a house like an island surrounded by the cleanup can begin in water. earnest. >> that's what it turned out to right now, it's still the rescue be. that's what happened. effort. five days after the first this time yesterday, this road, landfall. we drove down this road to get we have tim fox coverage. to the boat that you you and ie matt flynn live in columbia lake texas where that levy was said to have breached the locals have on yesterday in this neighborhood. right around the corner. a different report for us now. this was not flooded. we'll get to him. today, it is. trace gallagher in the kingwood because of the release of the neighborhood of houston. reservoir and because of the what you seen? rain that's been falling. >> this is like houston. we have never seen anything like now all of a sudden these people this and we take a look behind, say i've got to get out of here. they are putting in boats here's the problem. look at these guys. constantly and also pulling out and there is tremendous current boats. they have about two or three or here because of this release,

400 homes here. we are not quite sure the exact the water is moving very number but they are pulling people out of here all day. rapidly. he can't really use a motor so we had a crew here all day and by the best estimates, anywhere they've got to get out of the boat and basically try to heft between two to 300 people have been pulled out. and the boats keep going in. it down the street here until we back to you. get into deep enough water to >> shepard: will get right where we can drop his motor. back to you. i'll show you what's happening right over here. what a situation. as one of those helicopter air rescues. if taken a person mom plucked >> shepard: everyone seems to this person from a residence and have boundless energy. it's really amazing to watch. now with a guide from a rescue worker, they are depositing this >> the rescue folks, boundless energy. person imagine you've been this young lady's face tells the whole story. sitting in your home presumably for days as the waters are you did not expect this was rising. there is no way out. going to happen. >> no. i didn't. and suddenly a helicopter arrives at your home to pluck you out by a cable, attach a >> what's most upsetting to you harness to your back, have a right now? >> the fact that i waited so long and my kids. person on the end of that wire to guide you along, and at the end of the cable with the >> you didn't put them in danger. he would've been okay. national guard above and the

coast guard up above, you are >> thanks to them that showed up taken on a guy wire trip near now. i didn't know who to call. i didn't know if it was going to be too late. flooded home to nearby dryland. flying through the air beneath the helicopter. >> everything happens for a just a few days ago, the waters reason. began to rise and then you're >> something better came. it hurt, it's fine. stuck there. and you're picked up by a >> i'm so grateful. helicopter that picks you up and takes you to dryland. this is happening in place after >> we said this yesterday and place after place eventually i'll repeat it, first responders over the course of the storm, a are not enough, they're doing a fabulous job, but there are not 300 to 400-mile swath of areas enough of them to do everybody. where there has been flooded we were with the constable yesterday at this hour and we neighborhoods, flooded stores, went through, everybody said i'm flooded schools, schools that good or they're gone. are expected to be closed now they did all they could do. now the situation changed and for many more days. no real understanding of when they'll be able. the situation changed. what schools are able to be used these things change for these in the days ahead. people. you need to sit down? and which ones have to be gutted >> shepard: she didn't even and started over. know the child back folks from trace gallagher, it's astounding from the air and certainly from the church, they just want to do your view as well. wrong and said can i help you? spit of these guys just came >> it really is. we have a pontoon boat filled around, we jumped about with

with people down there and them, there is an elderly person they're putting more in. there going on a kayak. these are volunteers from all over texas here. you got people running down and the kayak is a good way to go t screaming here, people going to to. whichever way you can go. help some of those who are in need and they are running. good stuff. there's carlos, is going to go try to help save we can get they've got some people down there that need some help ourselves right here. getting out of here. it's kind of an all hands on deck situation. the current is tremendously you got people running as fast as you can try to get those who strong, and these guys, the may be in need and they're on pastor there, you can look it up on the internet. it's his boat. you've got one of these little things in it that they tow cell phones trying to communicate anyway they can and behind when they go to the lake using that new app that acts and have fun. like a walkie-talkie to communicate with the crews that are actually inside there. today, they are telling people out with it. this is kent ulrich. look at this lady over here. kent just came out of there. his house is about how high with water? >> probably for three and a half i was going to say if i can go feet. >> but your family is out and over and talk to this lady over everything is okay? here also who looks like. speak my wife and my daughter left this morning early and i stuck around trying to save the people are making the best of it, that's all i can say. grand piano and some things kept they are making the best of it. they didn't see this coming. rising, kept moving things out. this neighborhood has never had

they just got wetter and wetter. water. a little on the street but this there's definitely a current isn't flooded in 40 years. going back to the back of the i talked to somebody who lived lake area where it drains out here for 40 years and i never into lake houston. flooded. now it has. it was really something. you think it's going to stop rising eventually, but you can >> shepard: they've got a destination. do they even know whether going? see it looking at the front door >> we are going to a park around glass, you can see still a the corner here. couple of of water above that and it seeping through the door ways get to you. this is where we started yesterday curiously enough. >> i'm glad you're safe. this is the street that we were the best to you and your family. going up and down yesterday, kent is 1 of hundreds of stories here. we've got hundreds of people called briar hills parkway and come out being rescue today and we show you somebody staying in there still people in there. our house up there. here is the thing. there are people who are refusing to leave and the authorities are telling people they are still here, a young couple that just renovated their listen, here's the deal. we are going to send boats and house. look at this. their in the boats may not come this is another one with a back. if a boat comes by your house, little thing that you typically you need to leave or you are on toe when you go on vacation. your own. it's always a good time. the dispute information on that is that there are reports that i don't think it's quite as good a time for those folks today. some people are rushing boats to get on these boats and there's but it certainly coming in not enough room on the boats. handy. people out on their lawns going they say you have to wait, was somebody got a come get me. in another boat by. the naked as other message that we stood and talk to those

there may not be another boat so people yesterday. we parked in front of their there's confusion there. we are about to see some and house. that's where our vehicle was that's going to be amazing. parked over there. they are in the process now, then today, you've got to go it's a little ways back, maybe a there by boat. quarter-mile and if you look down there, he can see the this is another couple off to the right here. waters above the street signs. we are about to see at least 12 that we talked to yesterday. they were fine, their house was courses that are going to bring good. and today, there you go. horses swimming them out. they were stranded, the water was going higher, so they sent a i'm repeating myself, but things crew in their they are swimming have changed very rapidly here a dozen horses out of this area and i didn't expect it because and that should happen sometime it's not raining as hard as it in the next five to 6 minutes we had. this is from the release of the reservoir. hope. that's where we are. you can see right now they are trying to help people who need >> shepard: we wish them all the best. help and get them out of the water because even when the good luck getting to the park. boats have to stop, it still you're bringing us an amazing waist deep as you what all the story as you have for decades way up it there. >> i was reading this morning i've been watching you. i can't thank you enough. there people who are on higher >> this is an amazing one and ground who have large tracts of i'm happy to just be here and land telling people who have transmit it. horses that don't have anywhere to put them except in water >> shepard: jeff locke and his figure out how to get them to it and we will take care of your team live on the boat there. horses, bring feet if you have it.

it it's astounding the waiter his spanish is better than mine. pulling together. >> it really is. the amazing thing about this as but houston, texas, ministry of miracles and one for a family you look at the license plates, he got different states. there today. the trace gallagher out of the water as well. we just came in on the highway for the horses doing? because we switch locations. >> they're coming in. there was a line of boats waiting to get in here. we are being told for a even though there's an all hands 500 yards. were going to put a drone up in the air and see if we can follow on deck called to bring the them because the people that are boats out, they are lined up. they are ready to come in here out there telling us the image and help and a short time ago, is pretty spectacular. what they're doing is i've got we were about 45 commend to be about a dozen horses and they have one person writing one of 50 on lake conroy. the horses and hold on to one of the other horses and believe it it was fed by the river which is or not, it's 2017. clearly bulging over its sides. they are hurting these horses i want to show you this. we did a quick walk and talk with jet skis. over there to give you an idea of how much trouble it is the deal is there going to try because in essence, the water is to come around here. earlier they were saying the horses were having a tough time fluctuating by several feet and staying together so at some any different time of the day. point in time because current was so fast, they were just when watch this. what the horses go and hope for this is lake conroe, which is one of the biggest lakes in the the past. houston area, 21 miles long and now they have vetoed that there were thousands of homes along the shoreline. decision and decided they are going to keep all of these in 24 hours, they've got some 2e sources together and to the best water levels rose so fast it of our knowledge, they just put another pontoon boat out here

flooded multiple homes. and the people that have been out there that you're going to in fact, the water lifted so fast if you look down here at see the horses come around the bend and they will pull them out the dock, you can see it pushed right here. up the boats onto the docks and a little bit of context here. jeff locke was talking about his sometimes it just slipped the boats over altogether. water levels have risen there. you see this black truck down see this pontoon boat over here here. that right there was a starting to my left? this was pushed about 15 feet up point this morning. all of this water ahead of that on the rocks and behind you, was all dryland, and that's how there's a day liner that's got to be some 40 or 50 feet up far the water has come up and we out of the water. just talk to a family that just the level has dropped, but went back out to save their cat. because the river, which is way they have the dogs out, the kids over flowing is pushing into are out, they were all fine. this lake, every time they release water from the dam, the levels go back up. they went back in 10 minutes to the homes re-flood. go to find their cat. so right now, it is not a they have found their cat. the house is gone but they got mandatory evacuation, but they everybody out and some things are telling people to be alert are more important than others. because the water could be coming again. if you look down here, it was frodo. that was the name of the cat. if you go down here, this pontoon boat, they are trying to get some guidance because the jet skis clearly when i say herded them for anyone who's concerned about that. they're just trying to get them in the right direction and keep

them altogether so they can move them up. he still see people out here caring and ice chest and these >> shepard: back there on lake houston, the dispatcher truck people are some of the ones were way back down there and they're taking people in that pontoon boat, putting them on a truck being rescued and they're the and the try to get them out of the way. last ones. now we are being told because the currents are so strong out there because the water is rushing in so fast to lake houston that they've got these horses together, these dozen or so horses. at some point in time because they are having such a hard time they put all their personal swimming the horses as a group, they may just have to let them go on their way and cross your belongings as high as they can possibly get them and then it fingers and hope for the best. was time to go stay caught in the boats keep going in, the people keep coming out. the rescue boats and they left. some are refusing to come out as we get more information on those horses, we will show you the we are being told out there that pictures. >> shepard: will go for that and another life look from some people won't leave. another helicopter rescue. it is not going to leave. they're going to stay in their house and the authorities some of you are like oh, you've never seen a helicopter before. instead look at these boats. certainly i have. when his boat stopped going out i've written on a helicopter. today, that's it. i've written on the skids of a overnight, you're not going to be able to get out and we had helicopter covering traffic. the same thing happened last i have never been in the house night. flooded up to my eyeballs when people stayed and they put white someone came along cable sheets out and use social media to get help and there was no helicopter, put a harness around help to be had. they're not sending people back me, and dragged me a few hundred yards if not a half mile or more out there with torrential rains in the waters are rising. off of safe land. that i've never done and i would we are still keeping our eyes on get many of you have never done the people coming out in the either. if you are one of the ones worth pontoon boat, but we are being unlucky enough to be living in told 5 minutes down the road, once we get that drone up in the southeast texas when the storm came ashore and suddenly had

someone come grab you by a air, we will hopefully have so helicopter guide wire, he got to much better pictures to show be incredibly happy. you. >> shepard: will go back to the moment you do. but also wondering what am i let's get an update on the doing flying through the air storm. adam class at the extreme over my flooded city? it must be the most surreal weather center. >> is a big one. these are our latest numbers. experience and yet we're watching it again and again and we still probably have another inch or so. again throughout the day. this is now the wettest storm, helicopter rescues, but rescues, many of them, many of them from the wettest tropical system in texas history, the second volunteers especially those but wettest in the united states history. before it's all said and done, rescues on the ground. the mayor of houston is speaking it becomes the wettest system. live now about the troubles it's what we are looking out. facing his city. the showers in the houston area, but listen as we watch the live the heavy rain has shifted just a little bit off to the east and pictures. >> week send them our prayers looking at rain all the way along the of coast. from the entire houston community and quite frankly, even beyond. farther over in the beginning to get to the florida panhandle at because he was seeking to serve this hour. the heavy rain continues to the city and all of those who follow a little bit lighter would come into our city. currently in the houston area but as we now know, it's not having said that. just about the rain. it's about those rivers. here is our future forecast and will put this into motion for >> thank you, mayor. you taking you to wednesday morning. let me first thank you for we are beginning to see drying off the houston area, had the always being with us. rain continued to lift up to the north and off to the east.

in good times and in bad times, by wednesday, we are on the backside of that system picking up moving through the shreveport i just want to thank you for area. your support of this police little rock up towards memphis, this one continues to lift as we get closer and closer into the department. but i want to do is go over this weekend and then we are talking event, write an outline of what about eventually tracking up to occurred, just want to thank my the north, getting out of the way. team that is up here, all of our this has been a really impressive system as we are executive assistant chiefs that have been working an assistant talking about rainfall total. they be in the houston area, maybe a couple more inches but chiefs. >> shepard: they are so some heavy rain for folks out discussing the death of officer steve perez, just confirmed by there getting another 10 inches the mayor. to a foot in several locations. a houston police officer who we still have a couple more days died on sunday in the line of to watch this one very closely duty. let's listen. and then of course, the rivers are going to be a problem for >> he was taken from the people another month. of houston. >> shepard: a thank you so much. what occurred was in this as. part of the concern now, lake charles, louisiana, potential flooding over on sunday, august 27th, steve new orleans. we will go live to the governor of louisiana to get an update on perez who had been on at the our friends from cajun country and in addition, when trace gallagher gets his drone up and don't worry, they have mayor said for 34 years, assigned to the traffic permission, they will fly at enforcement division left his home at 4:00 a.m. low, they won't affect faa, all he left his home in heavy rain is well. when i get that up, we will show

you the horse rescue. and just got back from making a the still to come on the special edition of "shepard smith reporting." glad to have you in notification a little while ago that that community is not accessible. but for our aircraft, it would've been out there. roller derby. left on 4:00 a.m. on sunday ♪ now give up half of 'em. august 27th to get to his do i have to? this is a tough financial choice we could face when we retire. workstation. sergeant perez while driving around investigation has but, if we start saving even just 1% more determined that he spent about of our annual income... two and a half hours driving we could keep doing all the things we love. around trying to get to his duty prudential. bring your challenges. station which is traffic division and central with your downtown houston. he could not find the path and you can imagine heavy rain, dark roadways, who knows what else he saw out there with the lighting and the more rural community. he kept driving around, couldn't find it, so he called his chain of command and said listen, i cannot get to my primary duty station. being a dedicated professional the key is, as well as the other

dedicated men and women in blue and our first response family, he followed our protocol which is to go to a secondary location, the nearest location he can get to, which is the kingwood office. he had learned that we were actually going to italy have evacuated his primary station. we evacuated the secondary station. those were experiencing floods as well. so that was sunday the 27th. on monday, the 28th, his chain of command was holding the regular roll call when they noticed that he was at present. at that time, they started making attempts to reach him. and could not get of him. when they couldn't get a hold of him, understanding this man is dedicated individual that would not just not show up to work in one of the things that we know over the years and these events something this historical, sometimes first responders don't show up.

and say that our people have been showing up. have stayed at work and the vast majority have not left saturday night. contacted his wife and she advises that she had not seen her husband since 4:00 a.m. on the 27th. we immediately began an extensive search of potential path of travel. we utilized other investigative techniques to try to locate him and monday evening at about 10:00 p.m., we narrowed the search to hardy tollway and beltway eight. we responded where we had a high sense of probability that it was a last place he would've been. we called for our dive team. we even used.

one of our cajun navies. our american cajun navies. to help us look for him. and we couldn't find him. once our dive team got there, it was too treacherous to go under and look for him. we made a decision to leave >> shepard: continuing coverage of the storm that just officers there waiting until the won't seem to go away. take a look at the live weather loop coming in from our weather center, and you can see much of morning because as much as we the heavy rain has moved east of wanted to recover him last the houston area and night, we could not put more lake charles, louisiana, is one officers at risk. of those border towns right after you get over the louisiana we knew in our hearts it was going to be a recovery mission. border there is lake charles and a area where they believe the storm is going to come ashore even though we had a high sometime tomorrow making third probability that he was gone, we landfall. let's get the rick leventhal always hold on to hope. there now. i called her last night. >> we are outside the emergency operations center here on lake i told her we still haven't find charles because the governor of them, were still looking. louisiana john bel edwards just we are checking the hospitals. arrived here. he is going to come out and talk to us but first, is upstairs we can't communicate with the

hospitals because some of them have been evacuated and keep with the parish which has been inundated with rain for the past week or so. them apprised of the situation. this morning, they were out it's continuing to get more rain. right now we are in a break but we've seen some heavy squall there again which was the number today and i want to show you one priority. across the street where they are and within 20 minutes, they staging some of these boats. found him. i don't know they are officially members of the cajun navy but a unfortunately in the darkness, lot of private citizens towing sergeant perez drove into an boats over here and being dispatched to areas in need. underpass that's about 16 and a before we get to the rescue that half feet into the water and he took place overnight, i want to show you video from a shelter died in a flood in the drowning that which our earlier today, the purple heart correct center in lake charles which is now type event. let me just say this, that we surrounded by water. they move more than 100 people into that shelter overnight and had the privilege of notifying there was some talk checking his wife and his son and his extended family at their home hour by hour about whether they need to fly back find another that he died, that he lay down place to put those guys because his life and of course, the wife a shelter is surrounded by high water. they are expecting heavy rains had the reaction that we always to hit this area. this afternoon, this evening and expect when we see these. but i'm heartened by two things. tomorrow, 48 inches perhaps. six to 10 inches of rain could number one, i got to learn that fall in the area. he is a family of faith, faith the ground is simply saturated. every body of water here is in god and when you have faith, saturated and is overflowing. there's hope. today, your written and his hope and eternal life and it gives us all collective strength neighborhood where they saved

and the houston police 100 people. we saw dozens being pulled out department knowing that this family knows as much as they're from high trucks from that neighborhood in lake charles and went back there today, there hurting, he is always preaching even when it's not sunday. still a lot of water on the he preaches every day. streets. if it rains hard again tonight, the wife told me she had asked they will be back. him not to go in. the national guard helping out, and steve is one of the sweetest the fire department, and the people i've witnessed in this police officers, the sheriff department and i've only been here nine months. department and wildlife officials in bringing those folks out of there. we talk about the national guard we have 6500 employees and i knew steve perez was because he was a sweet and gentle public about the efforts that they are going through. is one of them told us. servant. when she tells me i told him not >> we drive in, we help load to go to work. them into the back of the truck. his father-in-law who was a korean war veteran from the sometimes quite physically have to pick them up and get them in the back. army, combat veteran told him the elderly, the disabled, they not to go. the conditions were so bad. have to be picked up in the back his response was we've got work of that truck. the guardsmen of the state of louisiana, we are well trained, to do. there is a man that didn't spend well-equipped and we stand ready 20 minutes and then came back to respond to anything the local and said i tried. authorities need. he spent close to two and half hours because he has that in his >> the major told me they have some 20 high water vehicles they dna. deployed across the parish help

and so i told his wife, let me out with some those rescues, ask you something? you are a person of faith. with 60 national guardsmen and if the lord wanted to take him today, how do you think he would they are working around-the-clock. want to go? we. we also issue something else. we saw a resident putting lying in a bed watching the sandbags around his house in a neighborhood here on lake disaster or doing what he's done for 34 years? charles and is not just for the water. it's also for the snakes. the residents told us because he and the smile that overcame that had water in his house, the snakes were coming in with the woman's face was beautiful and water. set at all. a lot of these folks are putting sandbags around their homes to it was his turn to go, she said. protect their water and from this is the way he would've wildlife, we should also tell wanted to go. you that apparently they ran so with that, i just want to out of sand. tell the men and women of the if you don't have the same bag houston police department and already on lake charles, you're not when you get another one. that what you have displayed for the past four days sleeping on >> shepard: rick leventhal and lake charles. we'll have coverage from there. we are watching jeff locke's cots. their only meal was a pack of camera as well, about a minute away from the fox business network coming up in just a second. he's had some amazing pictures to show us is afternoon. water and they were out there we've also been watching in a and we let them. they were going in that water. parking lot which has turned those who have been tweeting rescue center, 227, whatever one that remains on the ground. people walking around and you about they can't save people and despite the fact that we can't can see you take that, 226,

do the best of jobs feeding them, they are out there on a tonight 27. the ricoh. that's the high water rescue power bar having worked 37 hour where they are launching the boats and the rest of it. hours. so i'm sorry that we are feeding them, but that's why we are the red cross has reminded us, doing it so that they can save red cross.org if you want to donate, a lot of work to be lives. with that, i just want to say that we will continue this done. the markets will close in just a police department's resilient as few caboodle will have your world coming up. this is fox news channel, it is in the community, and i look forward to taking this man america's choice for news and and giving him the honors and information. i no longer live with his family that he so richly deserves on the day that we have his funeral but i know that this is houston and they know it's going to be a while because we've got some work to do that he would want us to do. who will apologize now when we mess up traffic? the list that we can do is a day that we say good-bye that is family community can opportunity to pay respects. and with that, we can open up the questions. >> shepard: the houston police

department giving the sad news is we cut to 2:27, the sad news of the passing of the houston police officer who died in the line of duty. first we know to have died serving the public in this disaster. officer steve perez, 60 years old, two days short of his 60's birthday. 35 years on the force. police chief in tears describing an officer who laid his life down in service of his communit the uncertainties of hep c. community. so many working so many tireless wondering, what if? i let go of all those feelings. hours. the storm began to come ashore on thursday and first responders because i am cured with harvoni. across the reason, volunteers across the region, many of them. harvoni is a revolutionary treatment for the most common columbia lake in texas. type of chronic hepatitis c. we were reporting a short time ago. we will continue watch these it's been prescribed to more than a quarter million people. pictures. we and is proven to cure up to 99% of patients who have had no prior treatment with 12 weeks. certain patients can be cured with just 8 weeks of harvoni. before starting harvoni, your doctor will test to see if you've ever had hepatitis b, which may flare up and cause serious liver problems during

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>> you are looking live at kingwood texas, northeast houston and the whole idea is to get people out of there. 15 dead due to hurricane harvey. a police officer among them doing his job and trying to keep people safe. he lost his own life. meanwhile, keeping track of rising floodwaters, president trump is in town. he is in austin, quite a ways away. he wanted to avoid the houston

airport today. i'm neil cavuto and your world on top of a storm ravaged texas and it's getting worse. right now, those floodwaters are not receding and the government has indicated right now they won't be anytime soon. in